PICIFORM BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piciform bird mean? 

• PICIFORM BIRD (noun)
  The noun PICIFORM BIRD has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood

  Familiarity information: PICIFORM BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICIFORM BIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("piciform bird" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piciform bird"):

pecker; peckerwood; woodpecker (bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects)

barbet (small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings)

puffbird (brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers)

honey guide (small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae)

jacamar (tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage)

toucan (brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak)

Holonyms ("piciform bird" is a member of...):

order Piciformes; Piciformes (woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans)